Kelsey Plum Complains to Charles Barkley About WNBA Pay VS NBA! Inside the NBA 

People will remember how great a player Charles was, but most people don’t even know who Kelsey Plum is.

I actually hate how Charles Barkley gets shit for not winning a ring, guy was literally a monster in his prime

The funniest thing is that almost everyone who clicked on this video likely did so almost exclusively because Charles Barkley is in it.

“Kelsey Plum is asking for a raise from a company that can’t afford her.” You nailed it

I was suffering from debilitating insomnia for many months last year. I went to my Doctor and he prescribed watching a WNBA game just before bedtime. It was like a miracle. It cured me the first night! Thank you WNBA!!!

If the players were to get 50% revenue All the players would owe 83,000

Only time I ever got to sit courtside was in Houston in 1999. That's when Barkley, Olajuwon and Pippen were all playing together. These guys were legends.

Charles Barkley is a true gentleman

Never heard one WNBA player say "I'm just thankful the NBA gives us the opportunity to play the game we love for a living."

Did this woman just say that Charles Barkley never won a championship?? While it is true he never won an NBA championship, but he is an Olympian who won a Gold medal in 92. He was on the dream team in 92. Show some respect. He was an animal in his prime. Unstoppable

Bill Burr does an epic bit on the WNBA in his Red Rocks show that is not only hilarious but DEAD-ON the money! Classic.

Uh...I believe Charles Barkley's got a championship as a Dream Team gold medalist. A team and event that literally changed the landscape of basketball for the entire world.

She’s lucky to even speak to Sir Charles. I wouldn’t even know who she was if she walked by.

"It's so hard to tune in and watch WNBA games." She tells no lies. 😂

I went to a small high school, our girls basketball team was often state champions because they recruited well and had an excellent coach, our boys team was horrible, we had a total of 7 players and our tallest was 6'1. We got destroyed my freshman, sophomore, and junior years. We were just ...horrible. And we would scrimmage the girls team once or twice a week, and we beat the shit out of them by 40-50 points every time..and they were STATE CHAMPIONS...and we went 2-90 over three years in the boys league. In my senior year, it all changed, we had put together a crew of bad asses and we had learned how to play the game, we were tired of losing and we punched back at the boys league hard. We didn't win the championship but we beat teams that were considered some of the best in state and won tournaments no one would have given us a prayer to win. We ended the season 22-7 and got an invite to play in the boys Class C state tourney. We went out first round but still, we had stopped the losing streak and went out with respect. You know what else stopped that year? Scrimmaging the girls team...too many girls with broken jaws, broken arms, and concussions, and they went from losing by 50 to losing by 100. This is why the WNBA will never be a speck on the ass of the NBA in terms of entertainment and intensity. The best a women's team could ever field, could never beat the worst a men's team can field, and God help the girls if they ever played the men's best.....it would send them to the hospital every time.

Charles Barkley is a super star Basketball player, and Kelsey Plum was out of line to say that to Charles.

Why do they never bring up that they’re a non profitable company

She talks smack to Charles while he is politely asking her easy questions. He could have asked her if the girls league would survive without the NBA subsidizing it . Or asked her if she thought it would ever make a profit ? Nope… entitled and delusional she insults an NBA legend.

*Why complain to a man complain to the WOMEN who don’t support y’all*

ring or no ring, charles barkley was one of the best ever

Charles: my opponent was jordan what about you

Yo I straight up think Ernie asked the question about pay just for his and Charles own personal enjoyment 😂

She is right; It is HARD to tune into a WNBA game. Making a “championship” barb to Barkley is rude. Great player that just didn’t win a Championship.

Realistically, if they got a share of the money that they bring in, they would owe money

You're right on!

It's like employees asking a bankrupt company for pay raises and guaranteed employment in the face of failing product sales due to public lack of demand

This has gotten a little ridiculous. They’re blaming society for not supporting something that they just don’t appreciate. You can’t blame society for not liking what you put out. You can’t force people to like your sport. But I love how no one ever mentioned that if they sell $60 million in revenue, they get the same player revenue share as the men do, but they never reached their quota.

She’s got a future in politics. She was asked a question and never really answered it.

Bill Burr said it best "Sell some fuckin' tickets" simple as that.

They only play 3 months out of the year and get paid 6 figures for the entire year. Technically they have the best job in the world.

And Charles should've said to Kelsey, at least I don't get paid to lose 10,000,000 every year.

She is right, it's hard to watch WNBA games.

Love Bill Burr's comment "No one in the WNBA got covid."

The fact that these ladies actually 12 mill a year combined when their league is way, way in the red, is fucking mind boggling.

Please pay us more even though nobody watches us or comes to our games.

She said "It's so hard to tune in and watch WNBA games" . I agree....

She wish she had the cache and respect Charles has in the basketball community. Man pays you a compliment and your response is to insult him... Good luck on getting that raise

For her to say that Charles didn't win a ring was totally classless. No one in the WNBA comes even close to his abilities, not even close. And he saying they want a percentage of the profits, when they don't make a profit just shows how stupid she and the rest of the WNBA players really are.

"It's so hard to tune-in and watch WNBA games..." - At least she's honest 😂

If the NBA took a few years off, what happens to the WNBA?

Kudos for rightfully disagreeing with her yet still showing actual WNBA highlights. Would have been fine showing bloopers, but I respect that you refuted her argument while not feeling like you needed to make a mockery of her and her sport

Whoever that lady was, she was tf out of line.

She's totally disregarding all the fans who faithfully show up to each WNBA game disguised as empty seats. How ungrateful

She acts as if WNBA championships mean anything. Except for Griner getting arrrested, I've never heard of a single player. I don't watch basketball anymore, but I can name twenty current/retired players off the top of my head starting with Rick Barry from the 1975 Warriors and moving on.

We need someone who appeals to the new generation and the moment you see Clark, Reese, you hate them. There's no pleasing the WNBA

She's got some nerve. Chuck would destroy her on the court right now at his current age. Hell, I bet I could find 4 other middle-aged dudes who never played above the high-school level and be able to compete with a WNBA team.

As an athlete you get paid according to the level at which you are entertaining to the masses. Nuf said.

Charles should have pointed out he's a Hall of Famer in a league people actually care about and he will be remembered for generations to come. No one knows who this girl is today! Let alone being remembered in the future. These WNBA players need a reality check!

With the revenues being brought in they need to pay to play. If the NBA pulls their financial support for the WNBA, the league would fold in a day. The league is a money pit and that's a shame.

99.9999% of the country couldn’t name 3 WNBA teams or players. Even if they lived in a city with a WNBA team, chances are they couldn’t name the team or a player 😂

Most people don’t even know who she is and she’s complaining about not getting commercials.

Why do they they always jump defensive about everything? She had no reason to go there with Charles when he was trying to take her seriously with his question?

Kelsey plum played against women with a size 6 basketball and no one watching their games while Charles played against micheal Jordan and scottie with packed arenas and a match up remembered for the ages.

WNBA is just not as popular. I can name at least 10 active NBA players by name, but I cannot name one active WNBA player. That tells you that from a marketing perspective the WNBA is not worth investing for companies looking for brand name recognition.

People would likely to pay to watch Sir Charles Barkley doing podcast or a Krispy Kreme donut eating challenge than to pay a ticket to watch a WNBA game regular season or Playoffs

Just unbelievable, I really wish interviewers would stop pussyfooting around and be blunt with any of these WNBA players and ask them "how can you honestly ask for a raise, when you're league loses millions every damn year since your existence?", I've only seen 3 or 4 interviews with any of these players when talking about a pay raise, but nobody has just been straight and to the point with them, I know these players have to know their league loses money every year, but I want one of them to acknowledge it on air and respond, complaining about it isn't going to fix the problem, if anything, the owners may very well throw their hands up and just say we're done with this league. In my opinion, they're looking for sympathy instead of a solution, I might go as far to say that they're hinting at NBA players should pitch in some of their salary in order for them (WNBA players) to make more money. 🙄😮‍💨😤

Barkley makes more than she does.....and he don't want her championship either!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

When a WNBA player try to disrespect Charles Barkley with the NBA Championship ring thing is ridiculous. Charles Barkley is a top 50 NBA All time Great. He won an Olympic Gold medal, he is a NBA Hall of Famer. He is still revelent to this day from the 80's to which he first started with the Philadelphia 76'ers to a NBA analyst. Kenny Smith has won NBA titles but his personality isn't bigger than Barkley's . Charles Barkley is that guy now. Don't get it twisted.

Bottom line wnba can't sell tickets. Well when you can sell the same amount of tickets as the NBA then you can talk.

Chuck should've said "If I played in your league, I'd be mvp and champion til I quit." I'd die laughing if he said that, though he'd probably get cancelled. 😅

To be fair, Kelsey Plum is a recognizable star in the WNBA

Sounds like not enough women watch the WNBA. They should support their ladies more.

*what charles should've said: "if i played in the WNBA I'd win a championship every year until i retire, n if u played in the NBA you'd never make it on the court"*

What she also hasn't taken into account, is that watching the WNBA makes people lose the will to carry on.

This makes sense as well... So it's like the 2 new football up start leagues should be making what the nfl players make..

Be careful Kelsey, you might just end up having to pay to play.

00:37 "It's so hard to like tune in and watch WNBA games" - yeah I can not belive it but I agree with her on something! Finding the motivation to turn on some boring WNBA game really is god damn hard!

Agreed, no NBA handouts included to keep them afloat!

The worst one was Lisa Leslie basically telling the NBA players to give her their money.

I would propose a profit sharing agreement above their salary. Then until they are profitable, it of course would be $0 but the potential is there.

lmao if you want the salary to be the percentage of the revenue, the WNBA ‘stars’ will be paying the NBA

The first thing I would ask Kelsey is has she read the women's player association agreement with the WNBA, if she had or at least got a summary of it she would know that percentage increase is tied to a specific increase in revenue. Also, alot of the agreements that the WNBA has is tied to the NBA and not by their own market worth along with the NBA giving the WNBA 10 million every year directly. People need to remember that the life time channel drop the WNBA for poor rating. If I was in charge the first thing I would do is make all the teams play in College gyms because playing in NBA arenas is not a good look because of the lack of fans (even with them giving away tickets sell out are few and far between - a packed 1000 seat arena is better than having only 1000 fans in 15000 seat arena). The second thing I would do is look at all the cities that the teams are in and would consider moving teams to more women's basketball friendlier markets where there is a built in audience for woman's basketball. I would even consider folding the city team based concept and basing all the games out of one or two hubs cities (one on the east coast and the other on the west coast - I would actual pick Vegas and Florida). Lastly the fact that they are asking for more pay when WNBA has never made a profit is crazy.

The NBA should be getting more national commercials especially here in the states.

Yet, if Charles was in the WNBA, he would have won a ring every single year he played.

I agree...IT IS extremely difficult to watch a WNBA game.

I try to watch WNBA games once in a while, but I have to admit 10 minutes is the most time I can watch. Charles was very easy on this woman after she disrespected him. At his age, he would probably beat her in a 21 game, 21 to 4. Have some respect woman. Charles is a legend.

Her team won a championship? Was that that team who had a parade to honor their victory that literally not one single person attended?

I'm not even a Basketball fan but she was way out of line with a comment to CB like that . How disrespectful? The guy is a legend .

It starts with BEING ENTERTAINING

0:36 “Just make it more visible.” Like that’s the issue.

Im really shocked that wnba dont suspend their players like nba did

Amazonian woman: "No can slam dunk, but have good fundamentals." Fry: "In other words, BORING." 😂 Futurama.

No one hates on Dan Marino for not winning the SB and hes a top 5/6 QB in the SB era.

Barkley should've said, "Well Kelsey, me not winning a ring in the NBA is equivalent to you winning a ring in the WNBA."

I think it's funny the athletes want profit sharing but never say anything about loss sharing. Wasn't the NBA in the same situation in the 70s that it was difficult to see games? Even playoff games would be shown tape-delayed. Get compelling competition and a strong rivalry worth watching, and people will turn it, AND then the revenue will increase, and they player's salaries will follow.

Barkley was a phenomenal player and a beast. He should have responded, "Well honey, if you give people something worth watching like I did, then they'll watch," and dropped the mic before walking off.

These women are DELUSIONAL

Let them be share holders. They need to buy employee option with their salary 😂

What a Low blow, geesh the disrespect is out of control...smh

That is such a chicken shit move for her to insult Chuck for not winning a championship. All he did was ask her if they could repeat. Frankly, it was probably just a courtesy questions, because I'm quite sure he doesn't really care. It'd be different if Shaq, Jordan, Magic, Isiah, or Bird said that to Chuck. They carried their NBA teams to championships. Few if anyone actually knows who she is. The rest of it is just obvious. You can't share profits that don't exist. They could share debts. Let's see if she'd care to cover some of the WNBA's annual losses. She comes across as pathetic in this interview. Chuck has the class to hold back on her, not because he respects her, but because he knows she couldn't take it if he disrespected her in the same way.

Why do you never hear a WNBA player talk about how they can improve their leagues profit so they can get a pay raise? A lot of them think they are on par with the NBA so they deserve more pay when they don’t do anything to help promote their sport. Also I don’t think she was joking about Sir Charles not winning a championship, she was taking a shot at him and it just shows hot highly they think of themselves when they cannot make their league profitable after 20 plus years. Charles was a beast when he played and is more of a player than any of the WNBA.

When i was younger they had WNBA games on all the time. They tried to push it so hard. The stands were always empty. These girls make more than i do to play game. I can’t believe how entitled they are.

At least people went to see Charles play, you won a championship in front of maybe 1000 people

It's not just about percentages. The NBA actually pays the mortgage on WNBA venues.

I would love to see WNBA players to do reaction videos to videos like this one.

Not just a bad league, but also filled with bad thinkers. 😅😂

I have never met a person....not a single one....that has ever purchased a ticket to a WNBA game. Won a pair of tickets as a door prize once. But I gave them away.

What if Chuck said you don't need watches on your wrist because there clock on stoves lol

I would like to know why the NBA keeps the WNBA going. Does it make business sence to take huge losses every year?

The consumer doesn't want the WNBA. The only reason it's still around is the teams don't want the back lash of ending it.